spectacle killings. i d like to see a debate about that. there s not an obvious political solution, but some of the people like mr. bratton said there s a civil society solution where we look out for people drifting between the cracks. if anybody has got experience like you do, michelle, trying to identify vulnerabilities in especially younger people and they can manifest themselves at such an early age, particularly in school. yeah, i think one of the challenges that comes about in a tragedy like this is people want answers. why did this happen or what is the solution. and so too often people want to identify one thing that can be changed that will ensure this never happens again. we do the same in education, what is the silver bullet. the fact of the matter is i think when you hear these conversations go on, there is no one thing. it s actually going to be a complicated solution. it s not just the availability of guns, it s not just how violent video games are. this you know, i
gun, bob schrum, you heard congresswoman mccarthy say look, it s a myth that the 94 assault weapons ban hurt democrats politically. the reality is that we may believe that it s just lunacy for somebody who arm up like that but there s not really a gun control debate in politics anymore. no, it isn t. i think the issue is settled. i was on a phone call with house speaker south po eer foley, dicd the president when he decided to push ahead with the assault weapons ban and the brady bill, which have now both expired. foley and gephardt said this is going to cost us a lot of democratic seats in the midterm and it did. the situation has gotten worse. you can t even get congress to prohibit people who are on the terrorist watch list from buying weapons, they won t accept that. david, you re right, we re going to have to focus on the person because we re not going to be able to do anything about the guns. we ve reached a state of stopping on this issue and we re not going to move on.
term, it s going to take a very comprehensive approach looking at lots of different angles. i mean the person versus the gun, bob schrum, you heard congresswoman mccarthy say look, it s a myth that the 94 assault weapons ban hurt democrats politically. the reality is that we may believe that it s just lunacy for somebody who arm up like that but there s not really a gun control debate in politics anymore. no, it isn t. i think the issue is settled. i admire the congresswoman. i was on a phone call with house speaker foley, dick gephardt and the president when he decided to push ahead with the assault weapons ban and the brady bill, which have now both expired. foley and gephardt said this is going to cost us a lot of democratic seats in the midterm and it did. the numbers have gotten worse since then. the situation has gotten worse. you can t even get congress to prohibit people who are on the terrorist watch list from buying weapons, they won t accept that. david, you re right, w
gun, bob schrum, you heard congresswoman mccarthy say look, it s a myth that the 94 assault weapons ban hurt democrats politically. the reality is that we may believe that it s just lunacy for somebody who arm up like that but there s not really a gun control debate in politics anymore. no, it isn t. i think the issue is settled. i was on a phone call with house speaker foley, dick gephardt and the president when he decided to push ahead with the assault weapons ban and the brady bill, which have now both expired. foley and gephardt said this is going to cost us a lot of democratic seats in the midterm and it did. the situation has gotten worse. you can t even get congress to prohibit people who are on the terrorist watch list from buying weapons, they won t accept that. david, you re right, we re going to have to focus on the person because we re not going to be able to do anything about the guns. we ve reached a state of stopping on this issue and we re not going to move on. it